Live Play Data

Ashnod's Altar

· Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

6713

Decks Running

3002

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=968

10%

13%

14%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 17% (96 / 968 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

6714 brought · 2096 players

Brought to game

6714

Ever drawn

1564

Reached battlefield

968

Still on board at game end

754

Once cast, 78% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=886) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=4339).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=522).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1770 instances

3.6%

Library

42.6%

Battlefield

22.5%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 140 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 95 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 85 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 76 decks
5 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 59 decks
6 Ashling, the Limitless 51 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 51 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 48 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 42 decks
10 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 42 decks

Card text

Ashnod's Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Staples

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.